problem in loop

[Siddhesh Desai]

i am just doing one simple program in that i am giving input from console but it gives me random output.please help me
thanks in advance
the code is :::
import java.io.*;
import java.util.*;
import java.lang.*;

class Array
{
public static void main(String args[])
throws IOException
{
int number;
BufferedReader br = new BufferedReader(new InputStreamReader(System.in));
int array[]=new int[10];
for(int i=0;i<=2;i++)
{
number = (int) br.read();
array[i]=number;
}
for(int i=0;i<10;i++)
{
System.out.print(array[i]+" ");
System.out.println(" ");
}
Arrays.sort(array);
}
}


it will give random output

[Ernest Friedman-Hill]

Hi,

Welcome to JavaRanch!

Not sure what you mean by "random output," but note that this program will print the character codes of the characters you type in -- not the interpretation of those codes as textual integers. The number "48" is the character code for 0; 49 is 1; etc.

The proper way to write your program is to read Strings, then use the static Integer.parseInt() method to interpret those strings. See Sun's I/O tutorial at http://java.sun.com/docs/books/tutorial/essential/io/index.html .